This week on Behind The Lens, in the wake of the recent explosion at Smitty’s Supply in Roseland, a flow of unidentified ...

The little brown lizards in New Orleans are thriving with blood levels of lead that Tulane scientists say should be lethal, ...

For children in rural St. James Parish, Louisiana – which straddles the Mississippi, about an hour upriver from New Orleans – ...

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Order continues for the second consecutive summer. Once the heat index hits 88 degrees, the DOC must provide some relief to ...

Though Louisiana legislators passed a statewide ban against physical punishment in 2023, parents can still give permission ...

A mix of chemicals released by the explosion are being carried by the Tangipahoa River and could enter the local food chain, experts fear. Contamination escapes absorbent booms in the Tangipahoa River ...

Let’s acknowledge the Alabo Wharf’s place in history In a lawsuit about a slaughterhouse that once stood at the Alabo site, the U.S. Supreme Court first interpreted the 14th Amendment, which later ...

“Our community should still be proud of the long fight,” said longtime Orleans Parish Prison Reform Coalition leader Sade Dumas, as she stood outside the Phase III construction site last month.

Rather than wait for her bus in the derelict lot in the 5300 block of St. Claude Avenue, Lower 9 resident Tori O'Connor waits for her bus in the neutral ground of St. Claude and only crosses the ...

Since the 1970s, researchers have that shown oil and gas activities are one of the major causes for the catastrophic loss of 2,000 square miles of coastal wetlands — a slow-moving disaster that has ...

Since it first opened its doors last year, the Jackson Parish jail has flouted state-licensing laws for juvenile detention facilities. It’s been consistently accused of abusing and neglecting kids in ...